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Nextbase Reveals Insurance Sector Research

Research by Nextbase, the UK’s leading and multi award-winning dash cam manufacturer, reveals almost one third (29%) of 18-25-year olds who had been involved in a car accident were either wrongly blamed or struggled to prove they weren’t at fault.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 11:45
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Esme Loans Partners with Validis for Secure Financial Data Sharing to Help Streamline its SME Loan Applications

Esme Loans, the digital lending platform backed by NatWest for SMEs and scale up businesses, today announced that it has entered in to a partnership to use Validis’ unique data sharing API (DataShare). DataShare enables a secure, high-speed connection between Esme’s lending platform and the most utilised offline and online SME accounting packages.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 11:16
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Lombard Risk, a Vermeg Company, announces early support of PRA 110 for Regulatory Reporting clients

The PRA110, introduced to build upon existing liquidity returns including LCR and NSFR & C66.00, and to replace the existing FSA 47/48, requires the acquisition of additional data of greater granularity to facilitate the monitoring and measurement of daily cashflow mismatches. 

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 10:50
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Path Solutions announces momentum signing up BTI Bank

Path Solutions, an established leader in providing cutting-edge software solutions to the Islamic financial services industry, is pleased to announce that Bank Al-Tamweel Wa Al-Inma (“BTI Bank”) has selected iMAL Islamic core banking platform for its retail, commercial and corporate banking operations, as well as for multi-channel support, analytics, risk and compliance.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 10:46
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Experian selects Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to automate cloud operations

Software intelligence company Dynatrace, today announced that global information services firm Experian has selected Dynatrace’s AI-powered, software intelligence platform to enhance service excellence and to meet the challenges of their increasingly complex enterprise cloud environment.  Experian will be using Dynatrace® as part of its strategy to continue to consolidate down to a limited set of strategic IT platfor

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 09:49
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Augmentum Fintech plc announces £5.3 million investment in Monese

Augmentum Fintech plc (LSE: AUGM) (“Augmentum” or the “Company”), one of Europe’s leading fintech venture capital investors, announces an investment of £5.3 million in UK based fast-growing mobile-only current account provider Monese.

Augmentum is participating in this £46 million Series B fundraising alongside Kinnevik, PayPal and Avios, all of whom are investing in Monese for the first time.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 09:20
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Biometrics will eliminate friction in financial services

Biometrics boom

No longer the preserve of the military and secret service, biometrics is one of the hottest and fastest growing sectors in the world. With the technology used across a variety of sectors - banking and finance, retail, healthcare and government - and with cybercrime on the rise, it’s little wonder experts predict the biometrics market will be worth $50bn by 2024. 

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 09:05
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Singapore Airlines clips boarding passes to Google Pay

Customers travelling with Singapore Airlines (SIA) can now have the added flexibility of saving their mobile boarding pass on Google Pay, the digital wallet platform and online payment system developed by Google. 

This is the first time an airline in the Asia-Pacific region has such a capability on Google Pay.

With this new initiative, customers can simply produce their boarding pass, which is saved to Google Pay, and proceed straight to the boarding gate after clearing immigration formalities. 

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 09:00
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Zurich launches international startup competition

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) has launched the Zurich Innovation World Championship, its new global competition to collaborate with the brightest and best start-ups and entrepreneurs in the insurtech space.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 08:57
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Olymp Capital Launches First Comprehensive European Blockchain And Crypto Asset Fund

Alternative Investment Fund Manager Olymp Capital (AIF) today announces the launch of the first European investment fund to cover the entire blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem. The fund, managed by Olymp Capital, will include blockchain-related Private Equity, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) activity and a fund-of-fund activity centred on crypto hedge funds. The fund accepts investment both in fiat and crypto currencies (eg bitcoin, ether). 

Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 08:48
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